Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Thank you for smoking.

I don't know why but this topic just keeps popping up these days. So why do we smoke? Do you smoke? Do the people around you smoke? How about the people of your age, do most of them smoke? The constant debate about why we smoke and how bad it is for our health. Well of course by now, the age of almost 22, I know the consequences, the harms, the cons, the sick side, whatever you wanna call it.

But that aside, I don't have a definite reason to why I smoke. The cool part is over, I mean I'm not exactly seeking for an image here. To kill time while waiting for the bus? Yes. I don't and can't do that in Singapore. I often find myself clearing too many in a day abroad. It is working, this Singapore policy thing. Which brings me to another thought, why? It is not even that much embedded in our culture to smoke. I get the no smoking on streets in New York and in Tokyo because they friggin smoke a lot. There isn't that much to ban in Singapore, I just don't get. It makes the streets look so fake, like a plastic town. I'm not saying smokers make your streets cool but it makes your streets real, don't you think? I guess this is just a very superficial analysis made by myself.

This fake plastic town thing is getting on my nerves by the years. Why should youths be pressured by the fake plastics that smoking is "illegal"? Should they or can they even have some sort of voice in making a choice. Well, the obvious answer is no. But ah heck, you can still manage a pack when you turn 18. Well, in no ways I'm trying to encourage this vice, I have not spoke much about this before till recently I guess, just some random thoughts while I'm waiting for 9 to arrive.

I love Tokyo very much, feels good to be back.

Oh why did I suddenly type this was not because of recent conversations. Okay slightly related. Talking to Laura about why non-Japanese kids make such a hugeeeeee huge mega huge fuss about their Japanese idols smoking. I mean everyone smoke here right? And how they insist "OH NO THAT CAN'T BE TRUE!", is so hilarious? On that, there was this attached link that she sent me about the continual huge fuss they made, I really wanna laugh out loud but I can't, where I am now, so I can only smirk and type. And yeah type HAHA. Do you really need prove that they smoke? Seriously, they're not my dads neither will they be my best friends, I don't exactly care for their health.

And yes, Japanese smokes. Period. Get over it.

Case closed for that. I am disturbed by a few comments made by my friends about me these days.

"Don't give me that smirk."

"You're much more bimbotic than you look."

Do I do that a lot? I mean these comments come in variations. Sigh, wends say it's not about changing my image, it's changing me. HAHAHA, oh so profound. Do I subconsciously smirk a lot? Anyway that's not a very bimbotic gesture. Ah I don't have much to say on that. Too much words will reveal too much of my true bimbotic self.

And to the other Laura, I'm still gonna buy my bimbotic bag.